let's get to lauryn ricketts with a look at what we can expect today. i think we slept through a lot of it. right, lauryn? >> you're right, erika. portion of it -- it's muggy and some fog out there. 76 is our temperature right now. we're going to continue to warm up. we're in the upper 8 0e 0s by noon. you can see a few scattered showers and thunderstorms over the last 12 hours. this was the afternoon into last night. we're clear out there now. the full forecast, only isolated storm this afternoon. we have some storms in the forecast, however, they might not be until later tonight. we're going to time that out and let you know if they're gone for the weekend. >> thank you, ma'am. see you then. we're following a developing story out of baltimore county where two teenagers are in critical condition after a tree fell on their car in lutherville. a 14-year-old girl was killed. this happened during the powerful storms we were talking about. this is video from the seat where three teens were sitting. the mother of that 14-year-old was driving and is expected t

lauryn ricketts. >> now i am blushing a little bit. >>> we have a little cloud cover, and a lighter wind. we continue with a comfortable low humidity factor out there right now. so if you liked yesterday, you will love today. we are not going to have that wind out there. you can see a few clouds out there right now, 72 degrees is the temperature. we will take it in the low to mid-80s today, and clouds will be more on the increase throughout the afternoon and evening setting up for chances of rain later tonight and tomorrow. timing of the rain and when you need the umbrella is coming up in 15 minutes or so. >>> now to the developing this morning, d.c. police stayed busy last night going to robby after robbery. darrick ward is live with the latest. >> reporter: among the districts, but if you take a look at the map you can see the distribution is even north and south but it did indeed keep police busy. what is so troubling about it is the number of them that happened over a relatively short period of time, about four hours. the first happened at 9:08, and a quarter of midnight there was an

but first we'll check in with lauryn ricketts. are people going to have dinner alfresco, lauryn? >> i think so. they haven't been able to do it. we've had some rain in the forecast. one thing we do have out there today is the mugginess. the humidity. that's going to be up quite a bit today. but we have a calm weekend ahead with the humidity dropping. then we have a little bit of unsettled weather into next week. current temperatures 76 in washington. 68 at dulles. temperatures in the 630s outside the beltway. continuing through the morning, temperatures top out around 80 degrees. watch out for fog out there as well. we're drying right now. but we do have some storms out there later on tonight. most likely after 8:00 p.m. until then, temperatures moving right on up into the low 90s. enjoy that sunshine today. more sunshine for the weekend. we'll talk about timing for the storms in a few minutes. we'll talk about traffic with jack taylor. hello, jack. >> good morning, lauryn. a couple things going on. work on the westbound lanes of 50. paving project. long set of cones going to tak

. >>> let's get another check on your forecast with lauryn ricketts. >> humidity making a comeback, lauryn. too bad. it's been so nice. >> feeling like southern california weather here the last couple of days. but today, you have that humidity starting to creep in little by little. 73 out there right now. we'll take the temperatures into the low 90s for highs. certainly getting warm and humid. fios is not cable. we're a 100% fiber optic network. and with the new fios gigabit connection... you get our fastest... internet ever. with download speeds up to 940 megs - 20 times faster than most people have. switch to fios gigabit connection with tv and phone for $79.99 a month online for the first year. plus hbo for one year and multi-room dvr service for two years, all with a two-year agreement. and switching has never been easier. get out of your contract with up to a $500 credit to help cover your early termination fee. go to fiosgigabit.com >>> temperatures topping out in th

now see where the storm is headed with meteorologist lauryn ricketts. she's keeping an eye on it as well. >> definitely keeping an eye. not only impacts around southeast coast of texas but we've got amelia draper down there as well. she's at hotspot at astros park, south and east of victoria, texas. victoria, the last update i got on them was about an hur ago, 16 1/2 inches of rain. we had some torn, one possibly in the houston area, one in the galveston area. again, that's where our own amelia draper is. they continue to have this tornado watch until early in the afternoon. the sun is just coming up in the area, have to see the damage from the overpass. look at this, thursday. it's saturday. thursday this storm is just going to meander around the east coast. winds 35 miles an hour thursday. that means tropical storm status until then bringing those onshore winds, bringing that storm surge out there. again, we'll have really worry about flooding for this area. we've got more on that and our weather maybe as summer returns on that ten day. talk about tha

lauryn ricketts is here to tell us about our sunday.ere was going to be sun, and there was during the day, and then the rain came. >> my forecast is verified thanks to adam tuss. and the sunshine created the storms we had yesterday afternoon through the evening. lightning and downpours, and thankfully we did not have the tornadic activity l but we had storms nonetheless. an absolutely gorgeous morning. no filter on this. this is a live picture. the sun is just coming up at 6:20 a.m. this morning. beautiful. i will have to tweet that out. now the humidity is coming back in. that's one thing you will notice when you head back out this morning. the humidity is not here right now and it will be absent throughout the day, and the rain is absent. we had half an inch yesterday, and we are doing well in the rain department for august. gaithersburg got near an inch. it was a plentiful rain out there. and that will move off to the eastern shore. it's only an area of spotty showers right now. hopefully you slept with the windows open ath dropped.

. >> storm team 4 meteorologist sheena parveen is out there with lauryn ricketts. she's in for chuck bell. >> we'll check in with them before the commute with jack taylor. >> it does feel great. you can feel the increase in the sticky necessary a tad. but nothing to complain about. >> i think we'll feel more before we head into the afternoon and even into really late this evening. temperatures are going to be at 91 degrees for daytime highs today. just isolated chances of showers and thunderstorms as we get into tomorrow also into friday. really not that bad. 71 right now is that temperature here in the d.c. area. 73 in annapolis. 64 in leesburg. we're all warming up today. topping out in the low 90s am going to feel a touch warmer than yesterday. even though woe were in the low 90s. when can we expect more shower depression emily coming up in a little bit. >>> hi guys. i'll take it. beach drive right now, still closed. unfortunately, the large tree down in the roadway. beach drive closed between tilden and blagden avenue. you're going to find unfortunately, the ro

. >> ee begin with storm team 4 meteorologist sheena parveen and lauryn ricketts on the weather deckith your up to the minute forecast. >> it's a great forecast for today. if you liked yesterday, you'll unfortunately, the added humidity. >> yes, you can feel it this morning. temperatures, i would say still very, very pleasant. especially for this time of the year. 72 right now in washington. 64 dulles. 63 gaithersburg. 68 kwaupt coe. the good news is today for your commute, nice and dry. this is how most of the week will shape up. 91 degrees by 5:00 p.m. a little more humidity. but going into the weekend, we're watching showers approach the area. we'll talk about what you can expect fort weekend. if you're headed to the beach, we have that forecast too. speaking of your commute, let's check in with jack taylor. >> good morning. 75 at 7:00 a.m. i'd like to head out if i can. i'd like to mow the grass. >> just inside the beltway, auth road at -- malfunctioning traffic lights. maybe rectify that situation. may be under police direction. same situation in newington. fairfax parkway at te

let's turn to lauryn ricketts. we've made it to friday, looking forward to the weekend. >> rolling with that humidity on the -- drop it a little bit like that. >> you all got plans for the weekend? >> yeah. >> okay, good. >> yeah, we do have plans, get to the weather. >> birthday weekend, i'm going to see my mother. >> happy birthday. a beautiful weekend to enjoy some time outside. because we're not going to have that humidity. we have it out there today. but it will drop during the overnight. we do have some storms. i do believe they could be impacting our area over the last couple of days. it is going to be a gorgeous weekend. then as you head into next week, it's a little unsettled. the frontal system is going to be hanging out over the area. it's going to leave us with storm chances. the humidity will go up and down. that's next week. cooling down for the weekend, though. current temperatures out there right now. 75 in washington. temperatures in the 60s outside the beltway. quantico, marine base at 75 right no

we want to check in with lauryn ricketts, and one thing we noticed this morning was humidity was lowerfelt refreshing. >> you are right, angie. feeling refreshing and temperatures in the 70s across the board. a nice be

. >> let's check in with lauryn ricketts. >> san diego weather is what we had, sure? >> yeah, just let megan take it from there. >> i got you. >> it's a great day out there. yesterday was gorgeous. it's another wonderful day. the sunrise, beautiful this morning. temperatures are a little on the cool side out there this morning. very similar to yesterday and we are warming things up. it's going to be another great day, as i said. not as breezy, and yesterday we had breezy winds out there, over 20 miles per hour. make sure you keep the umbrella on hand until monday, and you may need it late tonight as we could have a few showers after 8:00. until then if you want to get outside and go for a run, looking wonderful out there today. temperatures topping out in the low to mid-80s, perfect weather. we will see an increase in cloud cover this evening. d.c., the warm spot, stuck at 68 degrees. you step outside the beltway and you start to see some of the cooler temperatures. 59 at dulles, and 58 in gaithersburg, and 60 in leesburg, so it's chilly but it's beautiful and hopeful

. >> storm team 4 meteorologist lauryn ricketts. what do you see. >> it's an epic storm of all categories. really made landfall at 10:00 p.m. you can still it's going to hang out. it has nowhere to go given atmospheric conditions. it's hanging out and going to continue to stay right there as we go through the next couple days. it's going to stay up at tropical storm force. now, look at it. it just meanders off the east coast of texas coming right near san antonio. but really hanging out right around here. half of the storm may even stay offshore, which means it's only going to really fuel the fire, some of that warm water in the gulf will tip to keep it at an intense rate. we're watching for major storm surge, lots of flooding, epic rainfalls over about 40 inches. that's going to be something we're watching not only today, through the weekend but next week. more on our weather coming up in just a few minutes. >> lauryn, thanks. >>> now we want to get storm team 4 meteorologist amelia draper -- >> reporter: between houston and galves

. >>> meteorologist lauryn ricketts is outside with the forecast. then we'll check in with wtop's jack taylor for a look at the roads. we said it might be a frizzy hair day but yours looks terrific. >> that's because i have a ton of hairspray. i brush it back down and put more stuff in it every time i come back in. it will be ies especially into the weekend. live city camera. beautiful morning, but it is a little on the hazy side. temperatures in the mid-70s right now. 78 in annapolis on the water. elsewhere, north and west of town in the 60s. it's certainly humid and that's the way it's going to be today. as aaron was saying, storms later on tonight. we could have an isolated one before 8:00. late tonight through the overnight, i'll let you know how strong they're going to get. with the humidity finally moving out, that's coming up in a minute. right now we turn to jack taylor to talk about traffic. good morning, jack. >>> lauryn good morning. riders going northbound on route 1. the fairfax county, a broken down vehicle. it had been blocking the ri

we want to check in with lauryn ricketts, and one thing we noticed this morning was humidity was lower and it felt refreshing. >> you are right, angie. feeling refreshing and temperatures in the 70s across the board. a nice be northwest. everything is so green considering how much rain. the north wind suppressing the humidity, and full sunshine will be out there today. our average is 86 degrees, and we will stay in the 90s and then take a dip toward the end of next week. we will talk about the cool down and covering the eclipse and what kind of weather to expect around here coming up. >>> and then tributes pouring in following the passing of gregory. >> the last time we saw him was in june. >> i'm known as a i'm one of 100 comics. if you can't say i'm one, then don't say nothing. >> derrick ward joining us live at the memorial and talking with some of his fans. he had people cracking up still. >> reporter: until the end. that's what people are telling me about him, people that knew him personally. one comic here said he gave her a break during a roast several years ago, and it was a ro

let's check in with lauryn ricketts to see if it's sticking around. >> yeah, at least for today.we are saving the weekend, another comfortable day out there today. the difference between today and yesterday, lighter winds. we have rain showers coming through tonight and then monday and humidity returns tomorrow. temperatures 70s here in d.c., and outside the beltway temperatures in the 50s and 60s and all warming in the mid to low 80s today. we are not going to deal with the wind but an increase in cloud cover today. that's not what i wanted to show, but i wanted to show the 10-day forecast. there we go. and 70s pretty much all through next week. >> loving it. lauryn, thank you. >>> we will be back at 9:00 with headlines and more news. for now back to the news. >>> i just want to say -- shut that crap off. >> no one plays bette midler off stage, especially when delivering for her tony award. leading role in musical for her performance of the revival of "hello, dolly!." since it opened in april, it is broadway's hottest ticket, shattering records at the shubert theater. the show i

according to lauryn ricketts, the good weather continues this weekend. >> let's check in with her.ay? >>> angie is right. if you liked yesterday, yesterday was hot and we didn't have the humidity. today, more of the same. check out the sunrise. there it is right there. oh, man, right on cue, that plane coming through the area. that sun came up a couple minutes ago over the horizon north winds bringing down the humidity. again, it's very comfortable out there. plenty of sunshine as you continue through the day today. changes for your eclipse forecast, if you are sticking around this area. i have got that in detail coming up in just a few minutes >>> right now there are scores of roadblocks set up in spain. police are looking for the suspected driver of the van that plowed into pedestrians in barcelona. the 14th person died in a similar attack south of barcelona. the investigation is focusing on a missing imam that could have died in a massive house explosion on wednesday, and in the meantime many are still mourning the american, skwraeja tucker. >> him. >> they were in spain celebra

let's get to lauryn ricketts with a look at what we can expect today. of it. right, lauryn? >> you're right, erika.

lauryn ricketts is here to tell us more about if we can break out the grill today. >> oh, definitely. you could have broken out the grill last night and definitely for today. the grilling, you may have to put it away for tomorrow because we some could be strong all throughout the day tomorrow. not your typical afternoon storms. we have them tomorrow morning as well. it looks like the clouds are starting to break up. i know we have cloud cover out there but it's starting to break up, and we will have sunshine through the day. notice the wind, not as breezy as it was yesterday either. clouds moving in and out as we continue through the day, and they will increase later on. we have rain later tonight, and we will time out the rain chances and let you know when we can expect stronger storms and where those locations will be coming up in a bit. >> thank you. >>> now to the developing story. d.c. police stayed busy overnight going from robbery to robbery. >> news4's darrick ward is live. >> reporter: this happened over a 4 1/2 hour span. take a look at the map. you can see most of the crime

meteorologist lauryn ricketts is tracking its path but we start with meteorologist amelia draper live in houston at minute maid park. what are you seeing? >> we're five minutes away from the park. there are numerous flash flood warnings for the houston greater area throughout the day today and the upcoming week. not only that but we're under a tornado watch. now, we were driving around and we are seeing flooding in widespread areas. no widespread flooding yet but you can see where water is starting to collect, it is getting deep. you can notice the road starting to flood over. officials urnging people to be cautious. this texas talking about a gun show on the hypighway there, it important to remember it fill up we saw 6 to 9 inches of rain, another 4 to 8 today, tomorrow and will continue monday, tuesday, wednesday, likely pull away on thursday. the track of the rain has changed. overall the rainfall has not changed for houston area. we're talking 15 to 30 inches of rainfall, which is going to be catastrophic for this area. another live report coming up at 9:15. when you look at the r

let's check in with storm team 4 meteorologist lauryn ricketts. tures, 50s and 60s. it's a little cool outside. we'll continue to warm into the upper 70s, low 80s depending on your location. again, another beautiful day. if you liked yesterday you'll like today and tomorrow. we've got a little system off the southeastern coast of florida. that could bring us some rain as we get into monday night. we could have thunderstorms on the day through tuesday possibly leading spot first part of wednesday but temperatures stay well below normal so a 90 southern area beaches along the eastern seaboard you're going to have rain to deal with this week. >> lauryn, >>> good morning. harvey's wrath. the monster hurricane making landfall on the texas coast overnight as a category-four storm. 130 mile-per-hour winds winds ashore, torrential waves pummelling the gulf coast. one community already experiencing utter devastation as daylight breaks and residents get their first real look at the damage harvey left behind. >> we didn't think it would hit category four. >>

. >> i think lauryn ricketts is tracking that now. >> we we had a few clouds early this morning and now the response to the sunshine, going up 80 degrees at 9:30. we have a northwest wind. we know it's bringing in a lot drier air. the humidity is not as oppressive as yesterday. morning, midday and evening, temperature around 90 degrees. you will feel that humidity not quite as bad. humidity comes back and so do rain chances, talking about when you need that umbrella next in about 10 minutes. >> see you then. we're working to learn more about the arrest of a man who killed three little girls in prince george's county. >> a hart stod story to hear. joining us live from clinton, what we do know about the investigation at this point as it cti derrick. >> reporter: this investigation has moved at a rapid speed after that grisly discovery of three young girl under the age of 10 found dead in this house. it was about 7:30 yesterday morning a relative, person who lives this house on brooke jane drive and from upper body trauma, they were beaten to death. arrested 24-year-old antonio williams ju

we brought in the star this weekend, team lauryn ricketts. what do you say? >> there are so many times during the summer we're talking about severe weather. we were talking about severe weather last night. doug was. we had pretty severe storms roll through the area. we're clearing out. i through our windows. it is nice, 74 degrees, wind 14 miles an hour. temperatures only in the low 80s. very comfortableable as the humidity is dropping. a good looking saturday. we will talk about the rest of your weekend including your sunday and when we can see rain chances coming up in a few minutes. >> thank you very much. we are following a developing story in western d.c. where police are investigating a fatal crash that caused quite a bit of damage. >> live at that gas station where it all happened. good morning, derrick. >> reporter: quite a scene now. you can get a sense how violent it was. that car this happened around 3:00. according to police the car that started this was westbound on fla, it struck that parked car. when police got there, they were in the heavily p

lauryn ricketts tracking it. >> it's really not that bad.ers here and there during the weekend. for the most part we eventually saved the weekend with lower humidity and plenty of sunshine and we're doing that in late august. the temperatures are still warm out there today. yesterday, low 90s and today, lo it will be warm. the humidity was pretty oppressive. temperatures in the mid 80s by early afternoon. maybe make those pool plans. a few showers today in southern maryland, maybe a few sprinkles north of d.c. continuing in the afternoon. we're remaining dry and much less multiple this weekend. it returns monday and we will let you know when the storm chances come talking the eclipse forecast. >>> the baltimore washington parkway back open after a serious crash that shut it down at land-over road overnight. they had to block off that portion of the road. they say the driver off one of the cars is in critical condition and they're still at the scene trying to figure out what led up soon as we get more details we'll have the latest on the nbc

let's find out now from storm team4 meteorologist lauryn ricketts about how the weather is shaping up. hi, lauryn. i think we're having a problem with lauryn's microphone. >> there i am. there we are right there. i could not hear myself. we've got a few showers down to the south right now but that's it and you guys were talking about those clouds clearing. they are eventually going to clear as we go through the afternoon. we're already starting to see a little bit of clearing in the shenandoah valley but here in the d.c. area, we're still going to be cloudy at noon and then by 1:00, we do get some clearing. we are dry by the time we head to the middle part of the afternoon, again with peeks of sunshine. if you're picking those kids up from school later on this afternoon, it is going to be warm out there. the humidity will begin to drop, though, after about 3:00, and then we'll go partly sunny as we continue through the evening. in fact, your loved ones, as they may head home, may need those sunglasses, didn't need them this morning, may need them this evening but we will definitely ne

. >> and someone watching it very closely, storm team4 meteorologist lauryn ricketts. >> as we get into the afternoon, we're only going to heat things up. in fact, we haven't been dealing with these kind of temperatures for quite some time. august has been fairly mild and fairly wet. look how green everything is out there. it's a little hazy from our life city camera. temperatures in the low to mid 80s, 84 here in d.c., 87 in gaithersburg. and we haven't even hit the lunch hour yet. factor in the humidity, this is what i outside. it feels like low to mid 90s, pretty much across the board. so again, things are going to continue to heat up through the day today, but we do have a little relief on the way. that cooler weather will be with us towards the end of the workweek. it's going to feel more like middle fall around here. we'll talk about that. it's all coming up in about 15 minutes. >>> developing this morning, the search for ten missing sailors may be coming to an end. the u.s. pacific fleet commander says divers found some remains in the flooded room of the "uss john mccain." on mon

storm team4 meteorologist lauryn ricketts is here with us. >> you want to keep it handy for a good portion of the day today. temperatures 77 in the washington area, dulles, gaithersburg, all coming in at 70 degrees. still in the upper 60s in winchester. now we've got that rain. it continues to stream right on through the area. even some areas of heavy rain coming to the and then moderate rain. and then just south of fredericksburg right now, all of this is continuing to stream in from the south and west up to the north and east so we will see rain showers through at least the early afternoon. already getting a little bit of drying out here in the shenandoah valley but the clouds are going to stay with us today, maybe some late-day sunshine, but do we have rain for the rest of this week? are you going to need that umbrella? we've got those details on that ten-day forecast. it's going to be hot. coming up in a few minutes. >>> we're keeping an eye on developments from north korea where kim jong un has finished reviewing military plans to attack guam and now says he'll watch and wait before d

we brought in the star this weekend, team lauryn ricketts. what do you say?e're talking about severe weather. we were talking about severe weather last night. doug was. we had pretty severe storms roll through the area. we're clearing out. i

lauryn ricketts, thinking humidity isn't that bad? >> no a little lower than yesterday.ssive. warming up through the 70s and topping out to 90 degrees today, maybe a passing sprinkle. for the most part we will remain dry. temperatures in the upper 80s, monday and more on the solar eclipse. david. >> you, me, >>> good morning. banished. president trump's former chief strategist steve bannon speaking out overnight about his exit from the white house. his departure just the latest in a string within the trump administration. this morning why he says the trump presidency he fought for is over already. >>> breaking overnight, police officers under fire. one officer is killed, several others injured in at least three separate shootings in two states. the investigations now moving forward as president trump tweets his condolences. ♪ i've got a blank space baby >>> and taylor swift goes dark. the pop superstar clears out all of her social media accounts and her website overnight as the speculation swirls about what she has planned next.